Kristofer Munsterhjelm > Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2011 10:22 PM > > James Gilmour wrote: > > You are right, so far as I am aware - there have never been any > > Condorcet public elections anywhere in the world. That in itself > > should tell us something as the Condorcet voting system has > > been known since 1785. > > Nanson's method was used in city elections in Marquette, Michigan. It > might not be a very large-scale public election, but I think > it was public.
Although Nanson's method satisfies the Condorcet criterion, I would not have recognised it as a Condorcet count. It is essentially a variation of the Borda points system. To me, Condorcet counts are based strictly on pair-wise comparisons. According to the Wikipedia page, Nanson's method was used for those city elections in the 1920s (when other US cities were using STV) and for some semi-public elections in Australia. But if we regard Nanson's method as a Borda count, of course Borda counts have been and still are used for some public elections. James Gilmour ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
